Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicano is as vulnerable to mistreatment at the hands of the law as the black. Seven Mexicans were beaten by drunken policemen at a Los Angeles police station on Christmas Eve, 1952; six of the officers were eventually given jail terms. During an 18-month period ending last April, the American Civil Liberties Union received 174 complaints of police abuses from Los Angeles Mexican Americans. Two of the recent landmark Supreme Court decisions limiting police questioning of suspects involved Mexican Americans?Escobedo v. Illinois and Miranda v. Arizona. Many Mexicans still look on the Texas Rangers and U.S. border patrols...
...other items that must be settled before Britain's admission could be taken up anew. "Don't take a vacation during the Christmas season," Rey warned newsmen. Before year's end, he expects marathon sessions to wind up the Common Market's interim period of tariff adjustments, to sort out the thorny agriculture support-price issue, and to grant increased supranational powers to the EEC's executive and parliament. Said Rey: "If the solutions are not ready at midnight on Dec. 31, we will stop the clock and 1970 will commence a few hours later...
...printed page, the studiously naive dialogue contributed to an authentic period piece. Spoken onscreen, such lines as "I will not bandy words with a drunkard" tend to clutter the air like gnats. Kim Darby seems too far past puberty to be the original Mattie, and Glen Campbell proves the ideal cowboy to chase a wooden Indian. Even so, a conspiracy is afoot to make the picture succeed. Director Henry Hathaway, 71, knits the yarn into a perfect size 46 extra long for Wayne...
...student body (and class president for all four years), he had the clout to mobilize hundreds of disciples with a single telephone call, which set off a chain of calls across the campus. In May, the university finally approved the new curriculum for a two-year experimental period...
...erase the dramatic record written between 1953 and 1969. Not since the days of John Marshall, whose term as Chief Justice ran more than twice as long as Warren's (1801-35), have the Justices broken more new ground in the law. Serving as they did during a period of the greatest social upheaval in the U.S. since the Civil War and the Depression, the Justices refused to label many issues "moot" or "unripe," or to invoke any of the other legal techniques that would have enabled them to avoid controversy...